It's spring in Akron and things at the Akron almost-mansion are (mostly) moving forward. In my last update on this project I alluded to the fact that we're spending every weekend at the house attending to the business of patching, prepping, priming, and painting. Well, we're still doing that, one room at a time, and actually starting to see some progress. Three rooms are pictured through two doorways. One doorway is arched and the next is rectangular. The closest room is painted yellow. The next room is tangerine. The last room is a kitchen with blue-grey floors. My wife has determined that this house is going to cheerful, bright, and full of whimsy. I support that initiative and will point out that those efforts begin with paint selection. While I wouldn't go so far as to say we're selecting colors based on name alone, it's nice when the moniker fits the theme. Here you can see we chose Optimistic Yellow (Sherwin Williams) for the dining room, and Cheerful Tang...
In a previous post I shared that our recent visit to Paris was planned primarily around seeing the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Foundation Louis Vuitton . There's obviously lots of other things to see and do in the City of Light and I wanted to follow-up with some more pics from that trip. We typically stay in the Latin Quarter near the Seine and a couple blocks over from Blvd St. Michel. It's an area that maybe isn't highly regarded by "travelers in the know" since it's pretty touristy, but like it or not, we're tourists. The fact is it's close to a lot of things we love (Jardin de Luxembourg, Musée de Cluny, the Seine, Notre Dame), walking distance to others (the Louvre, the Orsay, Jardin des Plantes), and it's central enough that you can get anywhere in the city pretty easily. Plus, there's nothing like taking the RER train from Charles de Gaulle airport and entering the city via the Saint-Michel-Notre Dame metro station. It's ju...